The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty

Herausgeber: Borden, Sandra L

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Produktbeschreibung

Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this collection explores the complex, and often problematic, ways in which the news media shapes perceptions of poverty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9780367260729
• ISBN-10: 0367260727
• Artikelnr.: 62475548

Autorenporträt

Sandra L. Borden (Ph.D., Indiana University) is a professor in the School of Communication at Western Michigan University (United States). She directs the university's Center for the Study of Ethics in Society and coaches its Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl team. Her work has appeared in several scholarly books and journals, including the Journal of Media Ethics, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism and Communication Theory. Her books are the award-winning Journalism as Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics and the Press (2007; 2009), Ethics and Entertainment: Essays on Media Culture and Media Morality (co-edited with Howard Good, 2010), Making Hard Choices in Journalism Ethics (with David Boeyink, 2010) and Ethics and Error in Medicine (co-edited with Fritz Allhoff, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Problem of Poverty in the News Media Part 1 Principles:
Ethical Frameworks for Covering Poverty 1. Communitarian Ethics and Poverty
Coverage 2. The Capability Approach and Media Coverage of Poverty 3.
Extreme Poverty as Human Rights Violation: Moral Duties and Public
Engagement in the Global North 4. Precarious Photojournalism: The Ethics
and Aesthetics of the Unrepresentable 5. Shared Vulnerability as a Virtuous
Framework for Poverty Coverage 6. Solidarity in U.S. Journalism: Social
Justice Implications of How Journalists Humanize People Experiencing
Homelessness 7. Social Empathy + Compassion: Building Blocks for Poverty
Coverage 8. Reporting on the Margins But Not Marginalizing with Dustin
Dwyer Part II Poverty: Socioeconomic Need and Its Causes in the News 9. A
Very Poor Watchdog: How the Political Economy Continues to Define News
Reporting of Poverty in the Digital Era 10. Framing Poverty: An Historical
Overview of Ways of Seeing Poverty 11. The Social Construction of Poverty
in India: Role of News Media 12. A History of Media Coverage of Poverty in
the United States Since 1960 13. Ruin Porn and Virtue Porn: Licensing How
We Talk About Perceptions of Urban Decay 14. Neoliberal Poverty Discourses
in Canadian Newspapers 15. Coverage of Poverty in Business News: How Media
Represent Public and Private Concern for People Living in Poverty 16.
Living in a Material World: Celebrity Media Culture and Neoliberal Ideology
in the Digital Age 17. Urban Inequality and Marginalization with Chris
Michael Part III "Poor": News Representations of People Experiencing
Poverty 18. What about the Actors Involved in News about Poverty?
Disrupting Determinist Accounts 19. The Picture of Poverty: Visual Images
and Their Implications 20. Settler Colonial Representations of Indigenous
Disadvantage 21. Media Representations of Structural Factors Contributing
to Women's Poverty 22. The Cultural Image of the Fat Poor in German News
Media 23. Representations of the Working Poor 24. Representation, Poverty,
and "Hillbilly Culture" in Appalachia 25. To Cover or Not to Cover? A
Critical Discourse Analysis of Mainstream Media News Framing of Children in
Kenyan Care Homes 26. Not Sending Their Best: Media Framings of Immigrants
as the "Parasitic Poor" 27. News at a Time of Economic Hardship with Judith
Matloff Part IV Policy: Indirect Coverage of Poverty as Part of Watchdog
Journalism 28. Keep Calm and Carry On: Challenging a Discourse of Necessity
and Forbearance in News Reporting of UK "Austerity" Policies 29. Welfare in
the Media: Issues of Coloniality and Symbolic Power in the Case of Metiria
Turei 30. Contesting the Narrative of Rootless Others 31. Not Just for
Christmas: News Media Coverage of Homelessness 32. Criminalization of
Poverty: Fines, Fees, Money Bail, and Much More 33. From Community
Empowerment to Infrastructure Reinforcement: Exploring the Shifting Media
Narrative on Indigent Health Policy from Reagan to Obama 34. Housing Policy
in the News: In Praise of Markets, Problematizing Residents in Poverty 35.
What Lessons May Be Drawn from Media Reactions to a Universal Basic Income?
36. Water Access and Solutions Journalism with Jiquanda Johnson Part V
Positives: Promising Practices for Better Poverty Coverage 37. Amplifying
the Deliberative Agency of Indigenous Communities in Philippine News Media
38. Constructive Journalism and Poverty Reduction in China: The Targeted
Poverty Alleviation Campaign 39. Citizen Media as a Counter-Narrative: Slum
Journalism and the Kibera News Network 40. Refugees, Media Representation
and Counter-Narrative: An Analysis of TedxKakumaCamp 41. "Filling the
Void"? Engagement between the Nonprofit Sector and Journalists in the
Production of News about Poverty 42. Longform Immersion: Situating Struggle
as an In/Outsider 43. Expanding Journalism Students' Empathy by Writing
about the Working Poor 44. Focused on Results, Building Trust with Monica
Morales